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Corrupt ghushkhor lazy kamchor Rail officers will be terminated if Privatization of Rail done. Very good step by Modi Government. Rail is failed department for corruption
Indian Railways is unifying all the states as one bharat. This is required for common people to travel from one state to another for employment in unorganized sectors.the main concern is wages ,pensions ,privileges to its employees. Allowing extra allowances such as running allowance, mileage to locopilots, guards are to be removed immediately in next notifications, allowing pensions widowed daughters irrespective of having their age and having ennumbrt employed children, allowing additional 55%pension to locopilots and guards, introducing short service to locopilots and guard s, and terminating medically decatogrised staff, closing of all rly hospitals ,down sizing of ministerial categories
Such as accounts department etc, treating all rly employees on par with passengers for travelling on trains, reducing officers strength, are to be taken up immediately, by fly administration. A suitable law is to be brought for arranging fast track courts for stringent punishment for destroying national property for using for hartal and agitation.(instant justice).collecting concessional fares from respective departments freedom fighters,for MPs, mlas, even from rly, for extentending facilities to its employees. Thinking privatising is stupidity. To attend for food supply for its 130 crore people this is, coal ,minerals this is the only way for govt. What are the other functions the govt,has?.it is shame on part of govt.for privatising the organisation.
This is very good initiative to upgrade the Railway and only option. Infrastructure to be maintained by government and rest all should be by private companies. It is already exist in our country, in airlines and Jharkhand road transport. This will bring competition, lead to lower cost and better services. It is already late.
This whole process sounds more like knee jerk reaction to merge all railway Cadres as one, than well thought and planned decision. Majority of the activity of Railway is technical in nature, be it manufacturing of engines/coaches, design and development of new rail technologies, be it maintenence or traffic and signalling…these activities can not be supervised by officials of commercial and accounts cadres. Railway is bound to make quasi departmentalisation even if different Cadres are merged otherwise only confusion and job misfit will prevail…
One would agree with Columnist Mihir Sharma. The nature of IR makes it almost impossible to privatise. Subsidiary services can and should be. 2. Two successive chartered accountants heading the ministry have been unable to get a grip on finances. Personnel costs are too high. Freight has subsided passengers, rendering itself uncompetitive with road transport. 3. Merging eight services looks problematic, especially if, like many other bold moves, it has been insufficiently thought through. 4. The slowdown in the economy is hurting IR as well. Freight earnings on bulk commodities like coal are down. Debt servicing will be a challenge.
Corrupt ghushkhor lazy kamchor Rail officers will be terminated if Privatization of Rail done. Very good step by Modi Government. Rail is failed department for corruption
Indian Rail Privatization is good
Indian Railways is unifying all the states as one bharat. This is required for common people to travel from one state to another for employment in unorganized sectors.the main concern is wages ,pensions ,privileges to its employees. Allowing extra allowances such as running allowance, mileage to locopilots, guards are to be removed immediately in next notifications, allowing pensions widowed daughters irrespective of having their age and having ennumbrt employed children, allowing additional 55%pension to locopilots and guards, introducing short service to locopilots and guard s, and terminating medically decatogrised staff, closing of all rly hospitals ,down sizing of ministerial categories
Such as accounts department etc, treating all rly employees on par with passengers for travelling on trains, reducing officers strength, are to be taken up immediately, by fly administration. A suitable law is to be brought for arranging fast track courts for stringent punishment for destroying national property for using for hartal and agitation.(instant justice).collecting concessional fares from respective departments freedom fighters,for MPs, mlas, even from rly, for extentending facilities to its employees. Thinking privatising is stupidity. To attend for food supply for its 130 crore people this is, coal ,minerals this is the only way for govt. What are the other functions the govt,has?.it is shame on part of govt.for privatising the organisation.
Should be privatsied, it is high time.
This is very good initiative to upgrade the Railway and only option. Infrastructure to be maintained by government and rest all should be by private companies. It is already exist in our country, in airlines and Jharkhand road transport. This will bring competition, lead to lower cost and better services. It is already late.
This whole process sounds more like knee jerk reaction to merge all railway Cadres as one, than well thought and planned decision. Majority of the activity of Railway is technical in nature, be it manufacturing of engines/coaches, design and development of new rail technologies, be it maintenence or traffic and signalling…these activities can not be supervised by officials of commercial and accounts cadres. Railway is bound to make quasi departmentalisation even if different Cadres are merged otherwise only confusion and job misfit will prevail…
Indian railways should be privatized lock stock and barrel
One would agree with Columnist Mihir Sharma. The nature of IR makes it almost impossible to privatise. Subsidiary services can and should be. 2. Two successive chartered accountants heading the ministry have been unable to get a grip on finances. Personnel costs are too high. Freight has subsided passengers, rendering itself uncompetitive with road transport. 3. Merging eight services looks problematic, especially if, like many other bold moves, it has been insufficiently thought through. 4. The slowdown in the economy is hurting IR as well. Freight earnings on bulk commodities like coal are down. Debt servicing will be a challenge.